Tokyo Underground
Story
Spending a couple of years on my “want to watch” list, Tokyo Underground had been relegated to a growing list of forgotten titles. With a sudden
(and misguided) urge to watch something dubbed whilst exercising, I
dusted off the title and prepared for the unknown. Unfortunately, the
show can be summarised as a promising premise that becomes wasted as
the episodes drag by.
Starting out like so many shounen series, Rumina is introduced as a
somewhat clueless, yet spunky highschool kid. Suffering tortuous
training under the watchful... See full review
Training with Hinako
Story
What do the words “otaku” and “geek” conjure to mind when thinking of a
person? A spotty, overweight guy sitting in his mother’s basement? A
scrawny hikikomori lounging in a computer chair? The modern world is
constantly concerned with obesity and exercise, and these groups of
people are amongst the most difficult to stimulate into physical
exertion. But couch-potatoes be worried no longer, as Studio Hibari have the solution in the shapely form of Hinako and Isshoni... See full review
Tenkuu Danzai Skelter Heaven
Story
What happens when you take Neon Genesis Evangelion, crack in several episodes of Geneshaft and add a liberal sprinkling of poorly created computerised graphics?
Out of the bastardised mix pops a confused mess that calls itself Skelter+Heaven.
Rearing its ugly sci-fi head, the series revels shamelessly in a
clichéd and bewildering plot, before dying slowly and painfully with
no-one to mourn its passing.
From a promising opening set in a... See full review